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EmotiPad v1.0


Problem

When using one of the hundreds of Bulletin Boards around the net, most of them provide Smilies, also commonly know as Emoticons, for you to insert into posts. These emoticons let you express your feelings in an easy way.

The main problem is most forums just don't supply you with enough choice, forcing you to copy and paste Image URLs from other sites around the internet. This also lets you add a little individuality to your post.

EmotiPad - The Solution

EmotiPad simplifies the whole process of using emoticons by cataloguing them in your own personal library, and has functions to insert them directly into web browser windows (or in fact any text entry field you wish).

Very nice program, I'll use it!

[edit: I got an error: 'path not found' after installing the demo]

[ 01-14-2002 02:43 PM: Message edited by: LK ]

Looks pretty cool Karen, and by your picture, you seem pretty excited about it

I am... I think I know what Bill Gates felt like with Win 2.1 LOL.

Thank you for your warm welcome.. didnt know if I would be told off for advertising it...

It's a little spammish, but is harmless

nice program, but no offense, I wont be paying for a program that I can do manually for free.

Thanks Allen...

What error... what os etc?

Run-time error 73, "Path not found", on Windows XP.

It would appear you have installed in the wrong place... should be to c:program filesemotipad

My Windows is on F: drive so I installed it on F:Program FilesEmotipad... But shouldn't it work anyway?

being addressed as we speak... sorry Can you load it on your C drive?

Yes

Can I assume by that you have loaded it? Do you like it??

Yes, I just need some smilies now BTW, I think you should need to add 'hide to tray'/'minimize' options.

There is a hide button... it will scroll to the top right of your screen and when you mouse over there it will scroll out again

Please trim down your signature image to the max permitted - 88x31 or so.

Ooops, sorry Is this better?

mr. capps, authoritative and to the point.

you have to install to C:

it is

but it is not under "program files", my windows is in a different language.

[ 01-14-2002 05:47 PM: Message edited by: CopyCat ]

Much better, Soulgirl, thank you.

Right - the new version takes care of the installation problem... try it! Please

version 1.11 Emotipad Fixed Version

I agree with Greg (I think he's the one who said this), that I'm not going to pay for a program when I can simply do or [ img ]image.gif[ /img ] ... Sorry, but it just doesn't make sense to me.

works fine now, thanks

where is the db file stored? can people use anothers db file?

Sounds like a cool program. *Takes a look*

Blogger... for many peeps its a real pain having to type the whole url in! On top of that each time you have to right click, copy and paste the properties url and then post... this takes care of with one click!

Its hardly Microsoft prices is it... at £3.50 for $5 its affordable for even kids on pocket money! [DEMO]http://www.ninjamicros.com/soulgirl/images/smilies/band.gif[/DEMO]

CopyCat... you make your own library... you can back it up under the Options button. Any new versions (if you purchase full version) are mailed to you for free for life, and dont delete your current library.. so you keep adding, deleting or whatever

There will be a new version very shortly that logs you automatically into forums too! Im just testing it now as we speak[DEMO]http://www.ninjamicros.com/soulgirl/images/smilies/boldyellow.gif[/DEMO]

I'm with Greg and Bloggerman...

I wouldn't pay when I can just as easily use the IMG tag and type it out...I type 100+ wpm, sure, but even if I typed 5 wpm and this program cost 3 cents, I still wouldn't buy it. It's simply unnecessary.

Yeah, I'm not saying that it's expensive (I could very easily afford 5 bucks), but I don't have a credit card, I don't want to have to deal with PayPal, and if I asked to use my dad's credit card, he's definitely agree with me, it's completely unneccesary.

The program looks pretty cool, but I'd rather just type out the code, it takes me all of 5 seconds to do that.

I think it would be better to encourage the forum owners to install more graemlins instead, if it takes off I'll be rotating the names of my graemlins so as not to have my costly bandwidth stolen! either that or I'll be looking into blocking the use of my images on other sites.

Most of the smilies people would put in the library would be funky ones that would normally be hosted by "smilie" sites, that encourage their use...

Wando makes another point...a lot of those smilie sites will give you images to upload to your own server and use them from there, whereas many sites don't want you constantly using their bandwidth to get their images. Adding more graemlins to the board is a better solution, you can just click them on UBB

You can just click them on most message boards... the point Im trying to make is that this gives you scope for a little individuality - thats all

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